When asylum seekers are found

29/08/2023 | Reform

It’s not just the asylum seekers whose lives are changed by one of the latest projects to win a URC Community Project Award. Laurence Wareing reports

The thing about DARE, says Negan, is that ‘you don’t have to go to … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘After all, we’ve not read every book yet’

29/08/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa enjoys a bedtime story

I still read bedtime stories to my children, perhaps later than most. I don’t mean that it’s late in the day – a midnight reading would be madness. I mean our children may be … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I handed in my keys and walked home with tears streaming down my face’

29/08/2023 | Reform

Sheila Maxey clears out and finds lost treasures

Last Saturday I went into Brentwood United Reformed Church for the last time. Men from the two other churches in the pastorate were loading things into a hired white van – the … Read More

Art in Focus – September 2023

29/08/2023 | Reform

CrucifixionPhilip Eglin2008

Philip Eglin is an exciting ceramic artist. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1986 and being awarded the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts ten years later, he has produced an outstanding series of works. They … Read More

Reviews September 2023

29/08/2023 | Reform

A desire for justice

Bobi Wine: The people’s presidentDirected by Moses Bwayo, Christopher SharpCertificate 12A, 121 minutesReleased 1 September

At the start of this remarkable documentary about Uganda, a small group of people engage in impromptu Christian prayer in a … Read More

Colours of worship

29/08/2023 | Reform

Kim Wood celebrates the Meeting House at the University of Sussex

The University of Sussex was built in 1961 and is one of the seven ‘plate glass’ universities established in the 1960s. On the campus, in the midst of typical … Read More